Sustainability at Bellwether

Traditional Coffee Roasting is Bad for the Environment

Traditional coffee roasters are powered by natural gas and send smoke, particulates, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air with every roast cycle. With eight billion pounds of coffee roasted every year in the US, these emissions are not sustainable or healthy for our planet.

Bellwether Contributes to the Electrification of Everything 

Bellwether Coffee set out to make the coffee industry more accessible and sustainable for the planet, by designing a commercial roaster run on electricity–not natural gas–that is easily plugged in on-site. The Bellwether Roaster is the most sustainable coffee roaster in the world, both in air quality and energy use.

Roasting on a Bellwether Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Bellwether’s first-of-its-kind recirculating technology eliminates particulates and VOCs during the roast process, reducing the carbon footprint of each roast cycle by 90%.

Operating on today’s national electricity mix (currently made up of 17% renewable energy¹), a Bellwether saves 2.077 pounds of CO₂ emissions per pound of roasted coffee, compared to a traditional natural-gas powered coffee roaster. Annually, cafes can save up to 54,000 pounds of CO₂ emissions.²